Ensuring the U.S. did not try to disarm the Peshmerga in 2003: 36.031332, 44.527588

Colonel Harry Schute (Ret), commander of the U.S. Army 404th Civil Affairs Battalion responsible for the Kurdistan Region during the Second Gulf War, talks about efforts he and his soldiers made to convince U.S. leadership not to attempt to disarm their the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters--their close allies in Northern Iraq. This involved bringing two rival factions of the Peshmerga together to work on an influential report that articulated their historical role in the region. Click here for the full story